In this age of declining cultivation, the world is not devoid of spiritual energy. Rather, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, also known as innate qi, has grown sluggish and thin. Practicing martial arts alone can damage the body and shorten one's life, making it difficult to reach the innate realm. Cultivating the soul alone lacks a physical foundation, leaving one like a rootless duckweed, easily scattered by the distractions and information of modern society, much like inner demons.
Only by cultivating both the spirit and ancient martial arts, nourishing the spirit with vital energy and having the spirit nourish the body in turn, can one form an internal and external cycle and forge a path to the heavens in this age of decline. The protagonist, Chen Xiao, is a first-year student at Jiangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, born into a long-fallen ancient martial arts family. He has practiced his family's inherited fist techniques since childhood, enough to keep fit, but has never managed to grasp their essence. After an accident, he obtains the complete cultivation manual passed down by his ancestors, The Yin-Yang Cavern Mystery Scripture, and begins an extraordinary path of cultivation in this age of decline.
Spirit cultivation system (cultivating the nature): Settling the Spirit -> Leaving the Body -> Night Wandering -> Day Wandering -> Manifestation -> Possession -> Yang Spirit of Thunder Tribulation (one to nine tribulations)
Ancient martial arts physical cultivation system (cultivating the life):
Body Tempering Stage (Visible Force): Strengthening the muscles and bones, filling the body with vital energy. Equivalent to the physique of a modern elite athlete or special forces soldier.
Internal Strengthening Stage (Hidden Force): Refining essence into qi, generating internal force. One can begin to nourish the spirit, sharpening the senses and extending one's lifespan.
Innate Stage (Transforming Force): Opening the bridge between heaven and earth and connecting with external energy (spiritual energy). Vital energy rises like smoke, keeping ghosts and gods at bay. This is the Martial Saint realm.
Human Immortal Stage (Shattering the Void): One aperture opens all a hundred. The spirit is seen and never decays; the body becomes sacred, and fist intent takes physical form, allowing one to withstand a thunder tribulation head-on.
The plots are so unified that 9 and a half of the 10 urban novels have the same plot. It is a very classic plot. The protagonist gets an opportunity and suddenly embarks on the path of spiritual practice. A person's spiritual practice is either his roommate or his friend, who forcibly drags him to the school, such as the martial arts gym, or drags him to the martial arts gym, or the Japanese bully the Chinese, or the Koreans bully the Chinese, or drag him to the basketball court, or the sports students bully the students of their own college. Then the protagonist can't stand it anymore, so he goes to help. The key is that the protagonist was monitored by the state when he helped in the past, and the protagonist's slight fluctuations in energy were detected by the state. The key is that the villain kills people. Change the weather, change the celestial phenomena. The villains are suffering from yin energy, and the state cannot monitor it. The key is that the villain may have a master in the later stage, practice boxing, or smash rocks and trees with one punch on the edge of the city. The country cannot detect it, but the little fluctuation of the protagonist is detected. Then they were forced to join the country, which is not to say that joining the country is bad. The key is that there are too many repetitive plots. Basically, the plots of all urban novels are exactly the same.
Not interesting. . I might have liked reading it before, but now I prefer reading it.